Introduction to Athletic Injuries (HESC 200)

Course Description

The course provides the knowledge of prevention, care, and rehabilitation of common athletic injuries. The student receives athletic training information and the skills necessary to care for the common movement injury. Designed to develop competence in rendering immediate and temporary aid to a victim of accident, sudden illness, or injury. Prerequisite: BIOL 107 or BIOL 205

Course Objectives

A student who completes this course will be able to:

  • Appreciate the knowledge of the prevention of injuries and implementation of emergency procedures

  • Distinguish the fields of athletic training and sports medicine and gain appreciation for other professional fields related to the domains of athletic training

  • Recall the skills and techniques utilized in the prevention of athletic injuries

  • Appreciate and explain the basic concepts of nutrition and conditioning

  • Define the basic anatomy, biomechanics and pathomechanics involved in sports trauma

  • Describe basic injury management skills

  • Recognize basic injuries and sport specific conditions

  • Recognize general head and facial injuries and injuries to extremities

  • Describe common general medical conditions in sports

  • Demonstrate the ability to research and prepare informative documents on medications and conditions in physically active populations

  • Apply the concepts of athletic training in regards to the adolescent & pre-adolescent athlete.

Important Resources

Downloads - Will be made available in August 2025

Required Textbooks

  • Trowbridge CA, Ferris CM. 2023. Pfeiffer and Mangus’s Concepts of Athletic Training. 8th edition. Jones & Bartlett Learning: Burlington, MA.

Announcements

  • 8/27/25 - Welcome!

Lecture Assistant

  • TBA

Review Sessions

  • TBA

Course Web Resources

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